How To Install stterm on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install stterm on Debian 9. stterm is suckless tools simple terminal for windowed system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stterm on Debian 9.

What is stterm

stterm is:

Stterm is a bare bones terminal emulator developed with a focus on simplicity and clarity as the primary goals. It is very lightweight consuming only approximately (2+25 reserved+virtual) MiB memory. The suckless software projects philosophy is about keeping things simple, minimal and usable.

Note: the original binary name “st” in this package is “stterm” for “suckless tools terminal”.

There are three methods to install stterm on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install stterm Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install stterm using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install stterm

Install stterm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install stterm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install stterm

Install stterm Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install stterm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stterm

How To Uninstall stterm on Debian 9

To uninstall only the stterm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove stterm

Uninstall stterm And Its Dependencies

To uninstall stterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stterm

Remove stterm Configurations and Data

To remove stterm configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge stterm

Remove stterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove stterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stterm

Dependencies

stterm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install stterm package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.